After the break Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman and I are going to preview and review some of the other lessons in his new book, Amp It Up. It's hard to get off of that. Early days of ServiceNow was just jungle fighting. He's like, "How do we run a supply chain?" But this was quickly set aside because Frank appears to walk the walk. In short, money talks, and Slootmans got it in his hands and in his mouth. Are you just going to look the other way or are you going to call it out? In Amp It Up, you're pretty open about the struggles the company faced in its business and leadership. Others might say that hes completely brash. Its an impressive feat for the 8-year old software company, but everythings going fast these days anyway. Now, what that does the weaponizing, what that does is we block everything else out. As young as I was, I mean, I was determined that that's where I wanted to be and certainly, not hardware because I saw another way for commoditization happening over there. No, we're talking about stuff that's not working well. Did you find it difficult to change Snowflake's established culture? That's when you're at risk. And for example, when I joined Unysis, I ended up in a corporate planning role. I speak with a fat accent and like, "What are we going to do with you, pal?" Your mission is you're pursuing an end state or at least the closest thing to what you can envision, to what you want to realize as a couple. Yeah, there's no doubt. And you had literally physical media that could logistically manage. Our headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia. Don't typecast yourself." Frank Slootman added: " I'm excited to advise Blackstone. They knew exactly what we meant. By the way, our two largest competitors were both bidding for the company at the same time. All these things eventually came together. You need to be invested in the moment, in the present, rather than I'm thinking about my next move. This is probably the biggest understatement of the year. In a few weeks, when the 2022 winter Olympics get underway in Beijing, I'll have my eyes peeled for 22-year-old, Jutta Leerdam, the reigning world speeds skating champion with over 800,000 followers on Instagram, who's proven herself a trend setter on and off the ice. Snowflake is Slootmans third IPO. [1] In June 2012, ServiceNow became a publicly-traded company as Frank Slootman led the company through a $210 million IPO. So in other words, I did not accept the Snowflake role until, Mike said, "I'm coming along.". Collaboration between companies also offers significant opportunities to create value, and Frank Slootman - Chairman and CEO of data cloud pioneer Snowflake - believes it has never been more important for organizations to be able to mobilize their data and share it with ecosystem partners. ICE is the first exchange to list LNG freight futures contracts underpinned by the price assessments of spark commodities. I need to know what that is. 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We're always picking at things that could be better. So, the earlier you show up, the better off you are. Tell me about sailing, first of all. I mean, you probably have even a sense of things that you know you're not good at. And by the way, when you see the decline of very, very storage enterprises, you can pick MG and HP and and Intel and so on, what happened to these people along the way? One of the worst, worst in the English language for me. Slootman is going to take Snowflake for quite the ride, and you have to decide whether youre getting in his car or not. SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Instacart, the leading online grocery platform in North America, today announced that Frank Slootman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of . And that's our conversation for this week. Well, the number one bit of advice I would have is make sure you're close to the drive train. When some of these firms moved out to Canary Wharf, they decided that actually, it was too much to be sending people to the room, so they moved it to a phone call to buy and sell and establishing a price. So, it sort of lit a fire under me, just the prospect of doing that, it just kind of brought me back from my burned out state in 2017 to two years, feeling incredibly challenged, energized, and sort of having a new leash on life, if you will take on something like that. A compensation package he received upon joining Snowflake in April 2019 awards him a. Brady is a great example, but Joe Montana was that way and they all craved that energy, that excitement, that intensity, they can't let it go. Software was barely an industry. I mean, all these greats, right? When we first came in there, it was a very, very anxiety-ridden ride in the early days. I mean, without the foresight of having read Amp It Up, our listeners might assume that a jump from into software would take you really the rest of the way in your career from your start in Europe, to Indiana, the Midwest, all the way to California. And we publish the data transparently on our site, so anyone can come and see what actually happened in the auction. When I'm on offense out there, I don't worry about what's going on at home at the farm because that is in a very, very tight control mode. But if you're performing at Tom Brady's level, you have no reason to step aside. All of us, no exceptions." But one day, and this was in March of 2019 and he said, "What would it take for you to take the helm?" And by the way, the inverse of that is what are you not good at? Including his options, Slootman owns about 10% of Snowflake. And by the way, insurance companies are already pretty data savvy, but every single industry is experiencing these kinds of questions. If you want to know more about this CEO, this might be the book to read. It's you're in this job for a reason. There's new business models. I mean, they had graphical user interfaces that were completely proprietary to that company. But let's focus on another dilemma that brought up in the book, Frank. Because, and this is another important observation, I think. Get the world to sort of move onto a different technology platforms, et cetera. And our conversation with Frank Slootman on how he amped up his career scaled three companies and the lessons he wants to now share with the world is coming up right after this. Frank has been involved in the business programming market for over 25 years as a business visionary and chief. They're high anxiety, they're entrepreneurs, they're CEO, and sort of getting a very unvarnished view, inside view from a fellow traveler. Right. Open main menu Close main menu Home About Us Contact Us States Advanced Search That is how you energize companies. Presiding is the worst word. Things will change in ways you cannot even imagine the ideas that happen. They just said, "Look, let's re-envision, re-imagine based on the platform realities that we now have, which was the Public Cloud. Slootman recently spoke at the CNBC. Career In 2011, after the founder of ServiceNow Fred Luddy stepped down, ServiceNow announced appointment of Frank Slootman as CEO. So, we started to wind down a little bit. You ever noticed that NFL quarterbacks just can't leave the stage. There's no doubt that the successes that we have had, our function of the combination of our respective orientations in how we come at the world. Snowflake CEO Slootman Scores IPO Hat Trick With Big Bet on Data Software company aims to benefit from companies increasingly storing information in multiple clouds Big tech firms are investing. You could eject the tape from a tape drive and you could ship it off site. While most CEOs would be described as the person who would take their company to the moon, Slootman has been referred to as the person who would take his company to Mars. Not exactly like a year and a half, he'd been there for seven years. You arrived at something like tape sucks. Property details for 3001 W Ruby Hill Dr, located in Pleasanton, California. The biggest guess is that Frank Slootman simply had the track record for having previously taken data storage companies successfully out of trouble and into the future. Somebody who I had known for many, many years, so at Sutter Hill Mike Speiser. And all of a sudden, everybody is just high-fiving and doing victory laps and everything is beautiful versus reality is completely different. Basically, we had to solve our enormous problems that we have while the company was doubling in size, more than doubling its size every year. Data has no opinion. People were looking at my credentials. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. The good thing is you dont have to actually sit in with Slootman to get his lessons. They only learn from consequences, so you got to create consequences, good and bad when things happen and things happen all day long. I mean, you're not going to get excited, "Well, we want to grow 100% this year." Thanks for listening. The IPO was the third for Slootman, who moved to California for a job at Compuware in the dot-com boom, then worked at Borland Software. Give me that train wreck. I mean, you brought in some reinforcements when you started at Snowflake, including Michael Scarpelli, who was your CFO at Data Domain and ServiceNow. It was sort of an adjunct to what they called the computer industry back then. It's a transformation that is still going on. Those are really good conversation, good questions to have because each organization is different. By the way, everything he did had to be insanely great because he just couldn't get out of bed if it wasn't insanely great. And for our audience who may not remember the days of tape backups, can you explain the underlying concept that you grew from two men and a dog into a multibillion dollar business? So, we were just picking over use cases here and there to sort of stay alive in the early days. And by the way, data platforms have been extremely fragmented historically. When you get that sensation, you do need to leave because you're no longer the right person for that situation. And it's very rare to create that kind of value. Everybody has ideas. But the issue with the acquisition, by the way, I've never sold a company in my life other than that one, so I'm not prone to selling at all. Well, that's because historically all we did was we did analytics in silo. The New York stock exchange sits at the Southern tip of Manhattan on the corner of Wall and Broad Streets. It's really a company production, by the way. This property is owned by Frank & Brenda Slootman. We tried to, we wanted to get into primary storage. right? I mean, people go from spending $50,000 a year to a million dollars a year in one year and they're like, and the CFOs go, "What the hell is this all about?" But as I got into retirement, the whole experience of retirement changes in the beginning, it's very euphoric, right? Some may describe him as direct. But then, you go like, "Oh, this is the rest of my life." And when the whole world goes direct to consumer and it becomes disintermediated and goes wholly digital, the role of data obviously becomes insanely important. What took you back to the Netherlands at one point? I'm just, I'm fighting that tide. Most people just preside over culture. While everything about Snowflake is hot in the market, were left asking who is at the helm of it all. It's always hard when you come in as a CEO and you have to follow a founder because the founder almost has mythical status in the organization. Well, they knew now. Why did you give up the helm of the invisible hand for this new role with Snowflake? Let me bring you back 10 years to 2012, Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, and Marcin ukowski started Snowflake as the secret name of the startup they were working on during that particularly hot summer. I'm a miserable golfer, but somewhere along, the 18 holes, he's like, "I'll do it, but don't leave me again." They did not try to carry technology or ways of thinking forward. Now, most organizations are incredibly in up still in terms of their data promise. So, I finally caved, okay. So, I really lift that cross and the chasm dynamic. But your culture is the only thing that's really unique to you and everything else is up for grab for anybody else. I always talk about mission posture, which really means having a very, very intense visceral sense of what the company is trying to achieve. I mean, I was just in my way of life and I was going to stay there till the end of time. I mean, the problem with backup and recovery is, yeah, you can do backups, but the point of backup is recovery because if I can't find or read tapes, I'm still up the creek without a paddle. I always tell my own people, "Look, I'm a piece on the chessboard, okay? New competitors, new partner ecosystems, so it was like, "Wow, this is the future." Frank Lloyd Wright designed some 14 buildings for Japan: an embassy, a school, two hotels and a temporary hotel annex, a commercial-residential complex, a theater, an official residence for the prime minister and six private residences. That's awesome. Investors know this about us. He knows what problems exist in his field today, and he knows how to address them as well. Slootman has become somewhat of a business hero for many people, myself included. But you mentioned this earlier, it isn't really what happened. And that's all coming up right after this. Our European futures operation is based in London, England, and a big part of that operation is futures trading for Dutch Natural Gas at the Title Transfer Facility or TTF, virtual trading point in Amsterdam. And then of course, Michael Dell found just as attractive to bring EMC into Dell. Before that, he spent his life in Netherlands, where he was also born. Thanks so much for joining us inside the Ice House. We left off before the break with your decision to literally set sail after 33 years of a career that took you all over the globe, including bringing two companies public. They sold the living hell out of that product. 5.9% of any company is a huge deal. Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Because of his much sought-after expertise, Slootman gets paid a decent sum of money. So, it's the story, what goes around, comes around, as I said at the beginning. Strong personalities will just dictate culture in certain business units, in certain geographies and so on. Over his distinguished career, Frank has mastered the process of fundraising scaling and building young companies into unicorns with the run ending eventually way back here at the corner of Wall and Broad Streets with an initial public offering. Yeah, it was a good problem. There's no doubt, I'm a total hybrid here. The company, which prides itself as the leading customer success, Read More 10 Things You Didnt Know About Guy NirpazContinue, Medical marijuana is increasingly becoming a popular trend in the treatment and management of different diseases including chronic and fatal ones such as Alzheimers disease, brain tumors, cancer, HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, and multiple sclerosis. So, she talked me into it because I was on the verge of saying, "Look, I'm not going back there." And Mike, he takes on the end entire spectrum of controls and administration. And I said, "Why not?" Frank Slootman (born 1958) is a billionaire businessman, and the chairman and CEO at Snowflake Inc., a cloud data-warehousing company. The information contained in this podcast was obtained in part from publicly available sources and not independently verified, neither ICE nor is affiliates, make any representations or warranties, express or implied as to the accuracy or completeness of the information and do not sponsor, approve or endorse any of the content herein. All Rights Reserved. And then, I had another internship after that. It's very hard. And the EMC came in and within a quarter, it was up to a $100 million because they had channels and customers and everything primed and ready, right? Much like how he runs his companies, Slootman is always direct in his speeches. Because you're like, "Oh, this is great. But then, there's new platforms in terms of the Public Clouds, right? Our guest was Frank Slootman, the Chairman and CEO of Snowflake. Everybody has access to capital. That has helped make Chief Executive Officer Frank Slootman one of the best-paid technology executives. It's just that there is a spirit here that always believes that it can do things that other countries don't believe about themselves. I mean, we were crawling the bottom in the early days, so we had a product that had marginal product market fit. As cool as it may sound, Slootman doesnt actually have a literal invisible hand. The liberalization of LNG is creating a global natural gas market, with freight acting as a virtual pipeline between continents. Tej, Read More 10 Things You Didnt Know about Tej VirkContinue. So, we came out there and we said, "Look, no, we're not just going to sell a product here. Welcome back. Whereas in business, it often takes so much longer to be confronted with the consequences of your actions and some people don't-. When I in Ohio, I joined copy ware in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and I had not even been there a few month and they acquired a sizable company in Holland, a company called Uniface. Leaders such as Slootman, Scott McNealy , Jayshree Ullal and my old boss Pat McGovern have inspired me over the. Slootman previously served as CEO for Data Domain and for ServiceNow, which he both took public.
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